Wolfgang Gaissmaier

Research interests

• Judgment and decision making
• Individual differences in decision making
• Risk perception and communication
• Memory-based decision making
• Medical decision making
• Ecological rationality
• Models of heuristics

Academic Career

• 2014 Full professor (W3) of psychology Department of Psychology—Social Psychology and Decision Science, University of Konstanz
• 2013 Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Psychology, University of Heidelberg
• 2008 Chief Research Scientist (equivalent to an assistant professor) Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin
• 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Adaptive Behavior & Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin
• 2007 PhD in psychology–grade: summa cum laude, Free University Berlin
• 2003 Predoctoral Fellow. Center for Adaptive Behavior & Cognition—Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin
• 2002 Diploma (=Master's Degree) in psychology–grade: 1.0, Free University Berlin

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